Friday, August 19, 2011

A day off.

I took a day off work today. Kinda needed some chill time and trina's maternity leave is coming to an end, so we thought we'd take the opportunity (with Daisy kindly being looked after by her grandparents) to go out for dinner.

But what to do during the day? The last few months have left me with a long list of things i needed to do, but were not critical. This was the day.

Mostly this revolved around getting the bikes running better. You guessed, right?

4) File down the TALAS knob on the Fox fork on BA. The lever, if the fork is in short travel setting hits the down tube as i discovered the other day. You *know* one day you will forget about this, crash and thwack either the lever off or leave a dent in the down tube. Best do it now.

5) Adjust the thru axle so the bite point is in a better place.

6) Strip EBB from Jones and clean it, re-grease and...

...use light Loctite on the thread of the wedges in the mechanism and replace in bike. I've been having to re-tighten the EBB every 4-5 hours of riding which seems like too frequently...after a chat with the guys at Bushnell, we'll see how this goes.

the bontis are great tubeless, but i dont run tubeless no more...so the rim strip makes it very difficult to remove/put on tyres - if you dont use the rim strip, the tape migrates (at least for me) even if its sticky stuff, and i end up getting nipple hole punctures....i think its due to the offset/asymmetrical shape of the rim. in addition, because i mostly use hubs that dont need any dish, the offset drilling is unnecessary...The flows are good. they are quite soft seeming - i dent them not infrequently but otherwise they are solid and build well and the flows will take a wee bitty more spoke tension than the other stan's rims, so it all works out...